Expressing Silence: Where Language and Culture Meet in Japanese - Softcover

Tsujimura, Natsuko

 
9781498569262: Expressing Silence: Where Language and Culture Meet in Japanese
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1498569269 ISBN 13: 9781498569262
Verlag: Lexington Books, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

In Expressing Silence: Where Language and Culture Meet in Japanese, Natsuko Tsujimura discusses how silence is conceptualized and linguistically represented in Japanese. Languages differ widely in the specific linguistic and rhetorical modes through which vivid depictions of silence are achieved. In Japanese, sounds in nature evoke silence, and onomatopoeia plays an important role in simulating silent scenes. These linguistic mechanisms mediate the perception of the symbiotic relationship between sound and silence, a perception deeply embedded in the Japanese cultural experience. Expressing Silence brings the tools of both linguistic and cultural analysis in examining the remarkably rich array of representations of silence in Japanese language and culture, finding that depictions of silence through language cannot be understood without exploring what sound or silence mean to the speakers.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Natsuko Tsujimura is professor emerita in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and adjunct professor emerita in the Department of Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington.

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Verlag
Lexington Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1498569269
ISBN 13 
9781498569262
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
172
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